Excellent article. One of the problems is that many Republican parents are sending their high achieving Republican children into only engineering and finance. This has been a trend for decades now. I am a younger millennial who graduated near the top of my suburban high school class, and everyone else who was Republican went into chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering, or finance. There is a huge aversion to advising Republican children from going into academia and law for middle class, upper middle class, and upper class Republican families. Many of the Republicans I knew from high school are now very successful in private equity or engineering, but I wish they went into academia or law instead. Part of the reason we get these crazy Soros DAs, that are considerably to the Left of 80 percent of Americans on policy, is that the Left controls law and academia, and they use their control of academia to back up their pro-violent criminal legal philosophy. It is very easy for a Soros DA to release a repeat violent offender on bond with 70 prior arrests when all of American academia is saying he is oppressed while his victims are oppressors. My red state is already working on some of your suggestions in the state senate and state house, and I will email this article to them. My red state's lieutenant governor/senate president, and likely new AG are very interested in fixing this. They have both gone hard after DEI in universities and public grade schools.
This is one reason I support higher pay for teachers. I think it would effectively draw more serious people (i.e. conservatives) into education instead of the usual crowd of commie lesbians.
This is a very difficult problem which is nonetheless very simply stated. The right by and large are just less interested in politics. It's a difference in orientation. Trying to mould them into political animals the same as the left is nothing short of a war against nature itself.
I was with you all the way to "academia and law instead." We DO need more diversity of thought in those areas. But then you started talking about "Soros DAs," which is just nonsense, exaggerating what those DAs stand for, and so on. You're not helping your case by slipping into a polemic that just doesn't match the facts.
Soros backed DAs are directly responsible for more than 14,000 homicides every year on average over the last 6 years, and more than a million violent crime victimizations every year because of their policies. This is over the baseline number. Soros DAs have 20% of the American population in their jurisdictions yet have a supermajority of all homicides in the US in their jurisdictions. Soros DAs are getting tens of thousands of innocent people killed every year. Soros DAs release repeat violent offenders with 70 prior arrests on multiple concurrent felony bonds including pre trial bonds for capital murder. While out on these multiple felony bonds, the repeat violent offenders go on to murder and victimize more innocent victims.
Soros backed DAs are directly responsible for more than 14,000 homicides every year on average over the last 6 years, and more than a million violent crime victimizations every year because of their policies. This is over the baseline number. Soros DAs have 20% of the American population in their jurisdictions yet have a supermajority of all homicides in the US in their jurisdictions. Soros DAs are getting tens of thousands of innocent people killed every year. Soros DAs release repeat violent offenders with 70 prior arrests on multiple concurrent felony bonds including pre trial bonds for capital murder. While out on these multiple felony bonds, the repeat violent offenders go on to murder and victimize more innocent victims. Please get educated on the issue.
My response was not about whether your comments on Soros DAs are accurate or not. I'm not informed about that issue (although I might note that Capital Research has a definite bias). It was about how your comment on a post about how we understand American history went from addressing that subject to a rant about Soros DAs and mass deportation. I come to SubStack to discuss things I'm interested in. I'm interested in what people have to say about that. If I want to argue about progressive DAs and mass deportation, I'll use Facebook.
I am hopeful that the "school choice" efforts underway in many states will go a long way in undermining the liberal plot to revise American history. We have full school choice in my home state and it is awesome.
The article you are responding to was reasoned and important. It made me (a liberal, yes, or something to the Left of it) think HARD about my positions. But comments like yours scare me. There is no "liberal plot to revise American history." The 1619 Project went too far at times. Perhaps the pendulum has swung too far, as Scott Greer suggests. But the "school choice" movement, well.... Look at "Concerned Citizen" responses below. Is one of the things that's GOOD about school choice the fact that it doesn't work for Black families? Isn't that a red flag?
To be fair, I was afraid of this happening but it doesn't seem to be. I honestly don't think blacks are even aware of the program and would be scared off by all the paperwork involved.
Interesting article, but you are falling into the trap of absolutism. As a school teacher I try as best I can to teach both the positive and the flawed aspects of our history.
In addition as to the literature, is it possible that some of the topics are being explored, and given attention because much of the 'Great Man' theory and traditional history narratives have already been significantly explored?
Agreed! I probably always agree with someone whose tag is "more complicated." But the social history point is huge. A lot of what conservatives complain about in APUSH textbooks and such seems to be the replacement of mostly political history of great men with lots more consideration of ordinary people and their lives. I was particularly struck by this recently when I read Wilfred McClay's "Land of Hope", which is lauded by conservatives as the best alternative to "woke" history textbooks. McClay's book isn't bad, but it certainly is light on social history and heavy on political and intellectual history.
He was absolutely a liberal in good standing ... A characteristic review essay from 1988 was devoted to bashing Straussians and originalists as "fundamentalists."
You are evidence of the very problem that the author of this post seems to want to address. Arguing that history is complicated, that the 1619 Project went too far, that we need a better way of understanding American history than simple binaries of good versus evil is one thing. But you went straight to "red states" and "deportations." What do deportations have to do with how we present our history to ourselves?
Great article! I do think your practical advice is spot on and I thought of this effort which was published right before peak woke and is now being updated https://landofhope.education
Excellent article. One of the problems is that many Republican parents are sending their high achieving Republican children into only engineering and finance. This has been a trend for decades now. I am a younger millennial who graduated near the top of my suburban high school class, and everyone else who was Republican went into chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering, or finance. There is a huge aversion to advising Republican children from going into academia and law for middle class, upper middle class, and upper class Republican families. Many of the Republicans I knew from high school are now very successful in private equity or engineering, but I wish they went into academia or law instead. Part of the reason we get these crazy Soros DAs, that are considerably to the Left of 80 percent of Americans on policy, is that the Left controls law and academia, and they use their control of academia to back up their pro-violent criminal legal philosophy. It is very easy for a Soros DA to release a repeat violent offender on bond with 70 prior arrests when all of American academia is saying he is oppressed while his victims are oppressors. My red state is already working on some of your suggestions in the state senate and state house, and I will email this article to them. My red state's lieutenant governor/senate president, and likely new AG are very interested in fixing this. They have both gone hard after DEI in universities and public grade schools.
This is one reason I support higher pay for teachers. I think it would effectively draw more serious people (i.e. conservatives) into education instead of the usual crowd of commie lesbians.
The right wing position regarding teachers should be fewer, richer, smarter.
This is a very difficult problem which is nonetheless very simply stated. The right by and large are just less interested in politics. It's a difference in orientation. Trying to mould them into political animals the same as the left is nothing short of a war against nature itself.
I was with you all the way to "academia and law instead." We DO need more diversity of thought in those areas. But then you started talking about "Soros DAs," which is just nonsense, exaggerating what those DAs stand for, and so on. You're not helping your case by slipping into a polemic that just doesn't match the facts.
Soros backed DAs are directly responsible for more than 14,000 homicides every year on average over the last 6 years, and more than a million violent crime victimizations every year because of their policies. This is over the baseline number. Soros DAs have 20% of the American population in their jurisdictions yet have a supermajority of all homicides in the US in their jurisdictions. Soros DAs are getting tens of thousands of innocent people killed every year. Soros DAs release repeat violent offenders with 70 prior arrests on multiple concurrent felony bonds including pre trial bonds for capital murder. While out on these multiple felony bonds, the repeat violent offenders go on to murder and victimize more innocent victims.
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/Capital-Research-2022-2.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
Soros backed DAs are directly responsible for more than 14,000 homicides every year on average over the last 6 years, and more than a million violent crime victimizations every year because of their policies. This is over the baseline number. Soros DAs have 20% of the American population in their jurisdictions yet have a supermajority of all homicides in the US in their jurisdictions. Soros DAs are getting tens of thousands of innocent people killed every year. Soros DAs release repeat violent offenders with 70 prior arrests on multiple concurrent felony bonds including pre trial bonds for capital murder. While out on these multiple felony bonds, the repeat violent offenders go on to murder and victimize more innocent victims. Please get educated on the issue.
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/Capital-Research-2022-2.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
My response was not about whether your comments on Soros DAs are accurate or not. I'm not informed about that issue (although I might note that Capital Research has a definite bias). It was about how your comment on a post about how we understand American history went from addressing that subject to a rant about Soros DAs and mass deportation. I come to SubStack to discuss things I'm interested in. I'm interested in what people have to say about that. If I want to argue about progressive DAs and mass deportation, I'll use Facebook.
I am hopeful that the "school choice" efforts underway in many states will go a long way in undermining the liberal plot to revise American history. We have full school choice in my home state and it is awesome.
The article you are responding to was reasoned and important. It made me (a liberal, yes, or something to the Left of it) think HARD about my positions. But comments like yours scare me. There is no "liberal plot to revise American history." The 1619 Project went too far at times. Perhaps the pendulum has swung too far, as Scott Greer suggests. But the "school choice" movement, well.... Look at "Concerned Citizen" responses below. Is one of the things that's GOOD about school choice the fact that it doesn't work for Black families? Isn't that a red flag?
School choice just busses more blacks into White schools
To be fair, I was afraid of this happening but it doesn't seem to be. I honestly don't think blacks are even aware of the program and would be scared off by all the paperwork involved.
We live near a very black major city and there is exactly one black child in kids' grades.
Interesting article, but you are falling into the trap of absolutism. As a school teacher I try as best I can to teach both the positive and the flawed aspects of our history.
In addition as to the literature, is it possible that some of the topics are being explored, and given attention because much of the 'Great Man' theory and traditional history narratives have already been significantly explored?
Food for thought
Agreed! I probably always agree with someone whose tag is "more complicated." But the social history point is huge. A lot of what conservatives complain about in APUSH textbooks and such seems to be the replacement of mostly political history of great men with lots more consideration of ordinary people and their lives. I was particularly struck by this recently when I read Wilfred McClay's "Land of Hope", which is lauded by conservatives as the best alternative to "woke" history textbooks. McClay's book isn't bad, but it certainly is light on social history and heavy on political and intellectual history.
This was an excellent article. I remember really enjoying Wood’s books when I read them.
He was absolutely a liberal in good standing ... A characteristic review essay from 1988 was devoted to bashing Straussians and originalists as "fundamentalists."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/02/18/the-fundamentalists-and-the-constitution/
One can only hope that enough red states start to take this seriously to make a serious dent in the problem. This and deportations.
You are evidence of the very problem that the author of this post seems to want to address. Arguing that history is complicated, that the 1619 Project went too far, that we need a better way of understanding American history than simple binaries of good versus evil is one thing. But you went straight to "red states" and "deportations." What do deportations have to do with how we present our history to ourselves?
Great article! I do think your practical advice is spot on and I thought of this effort which was published right before peak woke and is now being updated https://landofhope.education